MURULLA DISASTER.
SAFETY OF TRAIN SERVICES. EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. Oct. 8. Tho inquest concerning the deaths of tho victims of the Murulla railway disaster was continued to-day. A leading railway official stated in evidence that had there been* mi automatic coupler-pin in use on the rupaway goods train the accident conld have been avoided. Tho coroner pointed out that the rules for the safe working of trains did not throw the onus of providing such pins on to any particular officer. Other evidence had indicated that thero was a shortage of these pins and that the practice had grown up of allowing goods trains to proceed without them. Railway officials said they were not aware of this and that a stationmaster, guard or officer in charge should see that tho equipment of a train was complete before allowing it to proceed. One official admitted that there was an omission from tho rules in not making a guard culpable for not seeing that the equipment was complete.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19454, 9 October 1926, Page 11
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